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Tuesday, 29 August 2023 21:48
Some recent observations by Pope Francis on stances in the Church – and on what he has called ‘backwardism’
Some recent observations by Pope Francis on stances in the Church – and on what he has called ‘backwardism’ With the first session of the Synod in Rome coming closer, opposition is increasing, especially in the US. Here are some provocative statements and some photos from Pope Francis. Quotes: I…
Monday, 28 August 2023 22:51
In memory of Paul Stenhouse MSC, The Stenhouse Wing at Campion College.
In memory of Paul Stenhouse MSC, The Stenhouse Wing at Campion College. Michael Fallon writes: The Province gave Paul Stenhouse's specialized library to Campion College when we heard that they were building a special wing dedicate to him. He was a great supporter of the College from its beginnings. We…
Sunday, 27 August 2023 21:23
Social Justice Statement, 2023-2024: Listen, Learn, Love: A New Engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Social Justice Statement, 2023-2024: Listen, Learn, Love: A New Engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Most significant for the referendum year. The Statement is in two parts: From NATSICC, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council and from the Bishops. The Statement invites all to listen to…
Friday, 25 August 2023 22:12
This week, Mission Office visits, cooking pizza at Cuskelly House and two Kookaburras at Kensington Monastery.
This week, Mission Office visits, cooking pizza at Cuskelly House and two Kookaburras at Kensington Monastery. MSC Mission Office, Roger Purcell visits Blackburn parish With Khoi and Trieu and his old school, Monivae. The Monivae visit was featured this week on the Mission Office podcast, Mission Alive, as…
Thursday, 24 August 2023 22:44
Stephen Hackett visits in Vietnam
Stephen Hackett visits in Vietnam Stephen Hackett returned from Vietnam praising the enthusiasm of our MSC confreres. Some pictures, especially his meeting with those in formation, He will return next year to follow the recommendation of the Chapter, which is to organise a gathering…
Wednesday, 23 August 2023 22:18
Acknowledging Joe Ensing MSC, turning 80
Acknowledging Joe Ensing MSC, turning 80 Joe Ensing has a Dutch family background, Queensland, student at Downlands. He made his first profession on February 26th 1963, ordained 31st May 1969. Golden Jubilee of ordination, with Paul Cashen Joe has spent most of his over 50 years of priesthood in…
Tuesday, 22 August 2023 22:23
A New Book: Dear More Dear Movies, Peter Malone MSC
A New Book: Dear More Dear Movies, Peter Malone MSC Back in Covid lockdown days, the cinemas were closed, 2020, from mid-March to mid-November (and some weeks in 2021). What was a film reviewer to do? Well, for many, Netflix and/or Foxtel was a major answer. The other thing to…
Monday, 21 August 2023 22:26
Family Care Sisters (The ‘Grey Sisters’) closing their house for mothers at Croydon
Family Care Sisters (The ‘Grey Sisters’) closing their house for mothers at Croydon MSC students and members of the Croydon Monastery community, Brothers and Priests, from the 1940s to the 1980s, will have had contact with the Sisters. And, the Sisters invited us to use their community house at Canterbury…
Sunday, 20 August 2023 22:40
Professions and Ordinations, Names, Dates and Pictures
Professions and Ordinations, Names, Dates and Pictures Philippines, August 17th 2023
Friday, 18 August 2023 22:20
Photo album, 20 years in Vietnam, Mass and Lunch
Photo album, 20 years in Vietnam, Mass and Lunch On The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15th), the MSC Community in Vietnam celebrated its remarkable 20th-anniversary establishment at Thanh Da Church. Also in this same celebration, 9 of our MSC Brothers made their perpetual profession…
Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:31
Fr Gerard Dowling, 50 years on radio, Family Counsellor - Congratulations
Fr Gerard Dowling, 50 years on radio, Family Counsellor - Congratulations We offer our congratulations to Gerard Dowling. On September 2nd he will have been on radio 3UZ (with its various names, now RSN) for 50 years, a record for any broadcaster. View from the window of the Federation Room,…
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 22:40
An anniversary for our Province Website
An anniversary for our Province Website (Pictures from the computer screen that has posted for the last six years) Today it is 13 years since this present phase of our site began. There had previously been entries between 2006-2009 (all available through the Search engine). There was updating in…
Wednesday, 16 August 2023 10:06
Abzalon’s letter to MSC Vietnam for the 20 years’ celebration.
Abzalon’s letter to MSC Vietnam for the 20 years’ celebration. With thanks to Bob Irwin for photos – but we will post them on the weekend so that visitors have more time to look at them. Meanwhile, Superior General, Abzalon’s letter. Rome, August 10th 2023 To the superior…
Monday, 14 August 2023 22:22
15th of the month – Jules Chevalier bicentenary reminder. How better than to celebrate his heritage with 20 years MSC Vietnam!
15th of the month – Jules Chevalier bicentenary reminder. How better than to celebrate his heritage with 20 years MSC Vietnam! Later today, MSC Vietnam will have the culmination of a year’s preparation to acknowledge and celebrate the MSC foundation, August 15th 2003. And the wonderful growth in these…
Sunday, 13 August 2023 23:01
From the General Bulletin, News of Hope - Some Highlights
From the General Bulletin, News of Hope - Some Highlights New Country. New MSC Presence. New MSC Formation House. Kenya. It is with great joy and hope that we announce that at the beginning of August 2023 a new MSC presence will start in Nairobi, Kenya (East Africa). It is…
Saturday, 12 August 2023 09:28
This week’s cheerful news of Greg McCann’s celebration – and most heartening news from Vietnam, official recognition.
This week’s cheerful news of Greg McCann’s celebration – and most heartening news from Vietnam, official recognition. The Vietnamese Government has approved the establishment of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in Ho Chi Minh City. We can now openly and publicly live and minister as Missionaries of the Sacred…
Friday, 11 August 2023 23:19
Apologies
Apologies The computer malfunctioned for the photos for the Vietnam-Greg McCann post. It will be rectified later, Saturday.
Thursday, 10 August 2023 22:15
Issues of this week, remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki - reflection by Claude Mostowik MSC
Issues of this week, remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki - reflection by Claude Mostowik MSC Andre Claessens MSC, General Councillor, writes: August 9th we celebrate the memory of the Jewish Carmelite Edith Stein or Saint Therese of the Cross (Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942 – canonized in 1998 by S. John Paul II) and…
Wednesday, 09 August 2023 22:38
Preparing for the General Chapter – Pope Francis on an important perspective
Preparing for the General Chapter – Pope Francis on an important perspective “Spiritual worldliness” a great danger to Church and its priests (and all of us) Spiritual worldliness is one of the most dangerous temptations facing priests and the Church because it “reduces spirituality to appearance” while disconnecting it from…
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 22:12
An alert: one week until the 20th anniversary celebration of MSC in Vietnam
An alert: one week until the 20th anniversary celebration of MSC in Vietnam In the meantime some ministries and renewal of vows The installation of the Ministry of Lectors and Acolytes! On 5th August 2023, Hoang Nguyen, MSC - community leaders conferred two scholastic students to the Ministry of Acolyte…
Monday, 07 August 2023 21:43
Mary MacKillop, Australia’s Saint, her feast day, August 8th
Mary MacKillop, Australia’s Saint, her feast day, August 8th Images of Mary, the woman who was the nun and foundress. In his general audience talk, Pope Francis called her “an extraordinary religious sister,” who dedicated her life to “the intellectual and religious formation of the poor in rural Australia.” “Wisely…
Sunday, 06 August 2023 22:16
RIP, Frank Smith CSsR.
RIP, Frank Smith CSsR. We are very sad to hear of the death of Frank Smith. Chris Monaghan CP, President of YTU writes: Michael Kelly just informed me that Fr Frank Smith CSsR died peacefully last night (2 August) at 8:35 pm in Berengarra an aged care facility at the back…
Friday, 04 August 2023 22:47
Congratulations. Greg McCann 60 years professed today – and celebrating MSC Brothers.
Congratulations. Greg McCann 60 years professed today – and celebrating MSC Brothers. August 5th was one of the days for the profession of MSC Brothers in the past. Greg has had ministries in schools, both cooking and teaching, and spent years in China teaching English as a second language. August…
Thursday, 03 August 2023 22:39
The Chevalier Family message for the First Friday – and the 2023 theme of Laudato si.
The Chevalier Family message for the First Friday – and the 2023 theme of Laudato si. And noting that this weekend we have the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and then Nagasaki. The popularity of the film Oppenheimer at the moment has drawn…
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 22:37
MSC Alive – growth around the congregation
MSC Alive – growth around the congregation In India MSC Indian Union was indeed on joyous mode during the celebration of First Profession of Brothers Jaswin &Vijay kumar and the Final Profession of Brothers Karthik and Sesu Raj on 2nd June 2023 In the Philippines We welcome officially our…
Tuesday, 01 August 2023 22:13
CRA, Catholic Religious Australia, Religious Congregations Book published: Our Stories, Our Lives, Our Mission,
CRA, Catholic Religious Australia, Religious Congregations Book published: Our Stories, Our Lives, Our Mission, a celebration of the gift we offer Church & society - copies available from CRA Office. CRA President, Fr Peter Jones OSA. The forthcoming launch of Our Stories , Our Lives, Our Mission at the 2023…
Monday, 31 July 2023 20:31
Some Significant Days for the Chevalier Family, August 2023
Some Significant Days for the Chevalier Family, August 2023 Baining Martyrs NOTE: this is an amplified version of Significant Days, combining the list made originally by Cor Novum, Issoudun, now with the addition of dates from Father Jan Bovenmars MSC’s book, Jules Chevalier, Daily Readings. His book was…
Sunday, 30 July 2023 22:34
A pilgrimage to Lourdes – you might enjoy The Miracle Club.
A pilgrimage to Lourdes – you might enjoy The Miracle Club. This Irish film is screening at the moment, an entertainment for most audiences – but a special for Catholic audiences. This is an Irish tale set in 1967 Dublin. As the title indicates, miracles, there is more than…
Friday, 28 July 2023 23:04
MSC Formation, Cuskelly House, Blackburn
MSC Formation, Cuskelly House, Blackburn Daniel and Trieu for MSC Vocations' promotion Yesterday we featured formation in our Indonesian Province. Today, we present our local formation group, During the mid-year break, Trieu and Daniel were involved in Final Vows preparation with sessions with Khoi, Philip Malone, Alo Lamere, Peter Carroll,…
Thursday, 27 July 2023 22:09
MSC growth in members: the Indonesian Province
MSC growth in members: the Indonesian Province As we prepare for the coming General Chapter, we think of the Society worldwide and our mission in the 21st Century. Once upon a time, Australia was the largest province. For many years, it has been Indonesia. Here are some recent photos…
